Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-11
sPlRrr OF THE NEWS.

SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.
The Belgian Senate has passed the.
Congo Loan bill.
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil. f.
seriously i'll.
Sylvania, a village in Lucas County.
Ohio was destroyed by fire Tuesday
night.
A resolution against the Irish Coer-
cion bill was passed in the Dominion
Houe of Commons.
Gen. Terry, in addition to other du-
ties, has been assigned to the temporary
command of the Department of the Mis-
souri,.
Dion Beucicau!t says that one reason.
why he retains his youth is because.
.'drink writes no wrinkles on his brow.
He never was tipsy in his life.
The marine hospital service has es-
tablished inspecting stations at Yuma.
and Nogales, on the Mexican border,
to prevent the introduction of conta-
gious diseases.
Count Kalnoky's decoration by the
Emperor of Austria is considered an
evidence of the ~latter's desire to show
that he concurs in the pacifcipolicy of
his Foreign Minister.
Mrs. Amanda Million isa candidate.
for school Superintendent in Madison
County, Kentucky. The other candi-
dates should stand back and let Mrs.
Million air her educational theories.
1t is estimated that the public debt
will be reduced the present month from.
$4,000 900 to $15. 600, 600. The to-
tai receipts of the Government so far
this month are $27, 124, O99; expend-
itures, $11,622, 253.
Miss Nutter, a New Bedford, Mass,
teacher, has created a sensation in that
town by washing the faces of pupils as.
a form of punishment. Some of the little
one say thattheir heads have been held
under a faucet for minutes at a time.
Speaker Hustled is a vestryman in the
leading Episcopal Church at Peerskill,
and out of his own pocket furnishes.
communion wine for every church in
the place.
The Terry family of Cuba have de-
vised a new charitable scheme. They
will build a large theatre in Havana
and divide the profits among the poor
of that city.
The Sultan of Turkey has presented
to Mrs. Heap, wife of the late Consul
General at Constantinople, the Order of
the 'Chevkat," a distinction rarely be-
slowed on any but crowned heads.
Gen. N. B. Forrest. of Fort Pillow
memory, is to be remembered with a
monumental pile at Memphis. The
Avalanche has the matter in charge,
and it says ''if there ever was a true
exponent of valor, it was Forrest"
Col. Winchester of West Virginia has
given an additional 10000 acres for
hunting purposes to the CheatMountain
Sportsmen's Association. The entire
preserve now includes 10000 acres,
and is the finest and most extensive
hunting park east of the Rockies.
Mrs. Sophia Laforest, who ~sixty-three
years ago made her debut as one of the
singing fairies in CHERRY and Fair
STAR" is the oldest occupant of the
Forrest Home for Decayed Actors. She
is IA, very feeble, and the curtain will
soon be rung down for her.
A prominent officer of the Knights Of
Labor tells the New York Commercial
Advertiser that the Labor party will not
probably havea presidential candidate
in the field in 1888, but that members
will divide up between the two old par
ties.
The Marquis of Landsdowne has re-
fused to accept the provisional arrange
ment made last week by the mediators
engaged in the task of adjusting the
dispute between him and his Luggacur-
a estates. William O'Brien will at
once proceed to Canada to denounce
the Marquis action.
Two marine disasters are reported.
The coastiug schooner Clotilde, from
St. Johns to New York, has been found
floating bottom up and no trace of her
crew could be found. The mail steam
er Finland, from Table bay, Cape Col
ony, for Mauritus, has foundered. The
mail matter and all on board were